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By Spl Correspondent Published in The Assam Tribune NEW DELHI, Jan 1 – In what should be a cause of concern, human trafficking from Assam is on the rise, with some NGOs now planning to shift their focus to the North East as traffickers have started making inroads into the...

Published in The Times of India by DwaipayanGhosh KOLKATA: This year turned out to be one of the worst for West Bengal as far as cases related to missing women and children are concerned. A central government report has identified Bengal with the highest number of cases where the victims...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh may soon have anti-human trafficking police stations and a special task force to check the menace in state. The decisions were taken by the State Advisory Committee to Combat Human Trafficking which met on Thursday after 15 years. “While government has...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A minor girl from the endangered Paharia tribe of Jharkhand, who was forced to work as a domestic help in Sushant Lok Phase­I here, was rescued during a joint operation conducted by NGO Shakti Vahini and Haryana Police. The 17­year­old girl, who was not allowed by...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Two minors from West Bengal landed in a trafficking net after they called up an agency that had advertised a job in a newspaper. They accompanied an “officer” of the agency to Delhi but were employed at the house of a businessman...

PUBLISHED IN THE TELEGRAPH CALCUTTA Guwahati, July 29: Police with the help of an NGO rescued two trafficking victims from Guwahati railway station last evening. Kaberi Sarma, general secretary of the anti-trafficking NGO, Global Organisation for Life Development (GOLD), said the girls were being taken to New Delhi with the...

PUBLISHED IN THE ASSAM TRIBUNE GUWAHATI, July 29 – A court in Haryana awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment to three persons involved in selling of a girl belonging to Assam for slavery and forced marriage. The judgement, which was pronounced a few days back, is seen as a breakthrough one...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RANCHI: Four minors, including two from Jharkhand, who were forced into flesh trade were rescued in Delhi on Monday night. Police on Wednesday arrested three accused from Bihar. Ghaziabad DSP Ranvijay Singh said, “One of the girls called up her family in Ghaziabad after...

PUBLISHED IN TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Begampur has once again brought the plight of missing children and the dangers that they face to the fore. Voluntary organizations and child rights activists said the government and law enforcement agencies have failed...

PUBLISHED IN HINDUSTAN TIMES Parental neglect, lack of education, poverty and absence of a support system, at school and home, are forcing juveniles into crime in the Capital, a child rights panel has said in a report to the Delhi government. The report comes days ahead of the monsoon session...

PUBLISHED IN HINDUSTAN TIMES Three girls trafficked from Jharkhand were allegedly put on sale as sex workers by traffickers to customers in Uttar Pradesh on mobile messaging application WhatsApp, police said on Thursday. The girls, including two minors, were rescued by the Uttar Pradesh Police and anti-trafficking activists from a...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Children trafficked to the capital were rescued in two different operations on Sunday evening. In one of them, a distress call by a woman led police to a trafficking syndicate based in Assam who were found to have kidnapped more than 25...

Published in The Statesman With a population of less than four million, around 200 girls and women have been reported missing over the last three years in Jalpaiguri. At 25, Sunita was raped by a married neighbour and then sold for Rs.70,000 to a vegetable vendor. “When I think of...

BY KELLY KISLAYA PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA Ranchi: The recent arrest of two traffickers have alerted the other human flesh traders in the state who are now shifting their base from posh areas of Delhi to its suburbs, especially Haryana. In just a week, eight persons, including a...

By Sai Manish (Published in DNA) In a three-part series, dna explores the dark underbelly of modern-day slavery and trade in humans from some of the remotest and backward areas of Jharkhand that is India’s very own ‘slavery belt’. In the first part, we reveal the chilling confession of a...

PUBLISHED IN BIZ DIVAS While we are surrounded with news of injustice and exploitation of the poor, downtrodden and women, it is heartening to the extent of extreme gratitude to see people making society just, free and equitable society a mission of their lives. What is even more heartening is...

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